Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

The world is constantly facing threats, including the emergence of new pathogens and
antibiotic resistance among extant pathogens, which is a matter of concern. Therefore, the …

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the
regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late …

Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in
central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation …

Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

Abstract Neanderthals occupied Western Eurasia between 350 ka and 40 ka ago, during the
climatically volatile Pleistocene. A key issue is to what extent Neanderthal populations …

Recent fossil discoveries suggest that Neandertals and Homo sapiens may have co-existed
in Europe for as long as 5 to 6000 years. Yet, evidence for their contemporaneity at any …

Abstract The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is one of the most important phases in the recent
period of the evolution of humans. During a narrow period in the first half of Marine Isotope …

The ability of our ancestors to switch food sources and to migrate to more favourable
environments enabled the rapid global expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond …

Dupuytren's disease is characterized by fingers becoming permanently bent in a flexed
position. Whereas people of African ancestry are rarely afflicted by Dupuytren's disease, up …